Kazakh Music

The Kazakhs are a Turkic-speaking people of Central Asia . Their nation, Kazakhstan , has an area about one-third that of the continental United States; it stretches almost 2,000 miles east to west, from the border of China to the Caspian Sea, and more than 1,200 miles north to south, from the southern Urals to the Tien Shan Mountains. At the end of the twentieth century, the population numbered some 16 million, of whom more than 1 million lived in...